Two Deer Park school district teachers resigned amid allegations of mistreating a special education student and failing to report the incident the officials.

Parent Sheri Graham said she and her husband were mortified to learn of how a special ed teacher treated her 13-year-old son at Fairmont Junior High School.

“We were notified by three aides in the classroom that on Dec. 5 (2011), the teacher taunted, mocked and put my son in time out almost all day long,” said Graham, whose three children attend Deer Park schools.

Graham said the teacher sprayed her son in the face with a water bottle and forced him to fold towels repeatedly. The mother also accused the teacher of ridiculing her son for not being able to tie his shoes and told him he could not come out of time out until he could.

The other teacher did not report the incident to officials, Graham said.

School district officials declined to discuss specifics of the case, citing employee privacy. Neither teacher has been identified by the school district.

District officials stated in a press release that two sets of parents filed complaints about a staff member who used an unapproved technique that did not follow district policy or training. The district removed the teachers from the classroom and reassigned off-campus.

Both teachers have submitted letters of resignation, effective at the end of the school year.

Graham called on school district officials to fire both teachers immediately, as well as to interview a third classroom aide who witnessed the alleged incidents.

“We had hoped that the school board would do the right thing and make the right moral decision and terminate the two teachers back in December,” she said. “However, they (trustees) keep proving that they’re not going to the right thing, now or forever.”

Graham said she has contacted the Texas Education Agency about the case, as well as the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.